Evolutions Secret Weapon: Grandma - Well - Tara Parker-Pope - Health - New

well.blogs.nytimes.com — Are grandmothers an evolutionary necessity? The contributions of older women to society have long been debated by anthropologists. In the animal world, females often don’t live much past their reproductive years. But in our world, women live into their 80s and beyond — a fact that may be explained, in part, by evolutionary forces.